Solitaire Pleine Lune
Two carats and a fraction, set low in yellow gold so the stone sits against the hand.
- ReferenceSR-1140-02
- Stone2.03 ct round brilliant, F, VVS2
- Carat2.03
- Metal18ct yellow gold
- CollectionSolitaires
Price on request
Each piece is finished by one setter and leaves with their name on the certificate. Nothing here is made twice — where a design is repeated, the stone is not.
- Table57.5%
- Crown34.0°
- Pavilion40.6°
- Facets58
This stone is normally traced live from its own recorded proportions. Your device is being spared the arithmetic — the measured angles are listed alongside.
This stone, not a stock one
The gem beside this text is not a photograph and not a video. It is built from the proportions recorded against this piece and traced facet by facet, so the light coming back out of it is the light this geometry actually returns.
Cut is the one variable a photograph cannot show and the one that costs the most. A stone a degree shallow in the pavilion leaks light through its own back and goes dull in the hand, which is exactly the thing a retouched product shot hides.
- Stone Ø8.23 mm
- Piece Ø12.90 mm
- PricePrice on request
- Lead timeFour to nine weeks
Actually this big
The circle is the girdle of the stone at 8.23 mm; the finished piece measures 12.90 mm across. If you have set your screen against a bank card, this is life size. If you have not, it is the browser's guess of 96 pixels to the inch — and it is almost certainly wrong.
Doubling the weight of a stone does not double its width. This one is 8.23mm across against the 6.54mm of the Quinze — half again as wide for twice the weight, which is the arithmetic behind every disappointment in a jeweller’s window.
It is set low. A two carat stone carried high catches on everything and reads, from a distance, as a stone perched on a hand rather than part of it. The seat is cut so the girdle sits 1.4mm above the finger, which is about as low as a pavilion this deep can go without touching the skin.
Yellow gold under a colourless stone is a decision that has to be made deliberately. Gold reflects almost all the red that reaches it and very little blue, and some of that warmth finds its way back up through the pavilion. Against an F colour stone it is a faint, deliberate warmth. Against a lower colour it would be an excuse.
- Enquiries[email protected]
- Telephone+33 1 42 60 00 00
- ReplyWithin two working days
- RegardingSR-1140-02
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